CASA, Giovanni della Trattato de gli vffici communi tra gli amici superiori et inferiori Milan appresso à Giouann’Antonio de gli Antonij (imprimeuano li fratelli da Meda) 1559
8vo. 24ff. (including the 2 final blanks). Large woodcut device on title and at end, in attractive brown twentieth century morocco gilt.
FIRST EDITION of Della Casa’s short treatise on how to give orders to one’s inferiors without causing too much offence, somewhat of an offshoot from his celebrated Galatheo.Censimento CNCE 16463; Adams C812; Fontanini/Zeno II, p.351
£1600
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